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DJANGO REINHARDT - Minor Swing REACTION | First time hearing.
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One of the most influential guitarists of all time.
One?.................he was the greatist
It's called "Jazz Manouche", a style of Jazz that emerged from Sinti Culture in France. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Sinti Musicians in France mainly played "Musette", a fast paced, very melodic style of Waltz with many virtuoso instrumental solos that was very popular in Paris at the time. But in the 20ies, when "Musette" started to fall out of fashion and Swing was all the rage, these Musicians started to play "Musette" with a Swing rhythm, but kept the fast, virtuoso style solos, which resulted in "Jazz Manouche". Since Sinti Musicians hardly ever play sheet music and are traditionally self-taught, their playing techniques are based on improvisation and the ability to listen and adapt, so the transition to Jazz was very easy for them. Although it sounds Latin, Manouche Jazz predates Latin Jazz and is the first Jazz style that genuinely emerged from Europe.
This is one of the best crafted guitar solos ever. No wonder all the best modern gypsy jazz players still hold Django Reinhardt in awe.
Grapelli often gets overlocked, but he is the other genius next to Reinhardt. His bluesy solo on minor always gives me goose bumps. Minor swing is such a heavy rocking song, man.
Violinist Stephane Grapelli here in 1937 ... and I was lucky enough to hear him perform in Exeter, UK, about 1991 or 92 ! What wonderful musiciams both he and Django were! (Stephane didn't die till 1997 I think).
I have a double CD where he twinned with Yehudi Menuhin to record music by Cole Porter, Gershwin etc ,all in that swing style. Menuhin couldn`t busk and had to read the music and Grappelli just played by ear but they play marvellously together.
Every guitarist I know aspired to play like him .
Gypsy jazz ! *So many* current famous artists point to Django as their guitar inspiration... he is amazing...
One of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century. Due to burns on his left hand, he fingered notes mainly with his first and middle fingers - both his ring and little finger were deformed and not very usable.
That’s quite amazing that he was able to produce such amazing sounds with an impairment like you have described! That’s pure talent!
Imagine how he’d play with 10 fingers! 🤯
The violinist is Stephane Grapelli - probably the finest jazz violinist who's ever lived. Not only that but Stephane was also a brilliant jazz pianist.
Two fingered lightning. And, His two fingered hand was his fretting hand.
Wow. You just opened the DJango door. It's gypsy jazz. Please try Django's rendition of "After You've Gone".
Legend! And he played that well with only a thumb and two useful fingers on his right hand. A lot of music fans name their cats Django.
Left hand!
@@webbtrekker534 Oops! You are right!
@@lorijones9579
*Left! 🤣
@@jamespasifull3424 Oops!
Hi Hari, I'm a saxophonist/vocalist who performs in the Manouche (a.k.a French Gypsy) tradition. I'm touched by your reaction, thank you for sharing. It's refreshing to hear that there are still people for whom this music is a new frontier for them. I wish you all the best!
I like that your username is also the name of one of Django's songs
This is the moment mate, when you discover that nothing is really new. The beat, the application, the instruments... they are the same. The beat might advance, or decline, but the heart of the music remains. Django was a master, of that there is no doubt.
This number has a ragtime feel to it.
When I was a mechanic I was amazed that most internal combustion engine designs I thought were advanced had all been developed before the 2nd world War. Valve timing and lift, exhaust scavenging, turbo and super charging, nitrous oxide injection all well researched in the early years of the 20th century.
Alvin Lee, guitarist from Ten Years After, referenced Django as an influence in a magazine interview I read in the mid-sixties. I bought an album of Django's music and the rest is history. He was brilliant but also didn't read music, was illiterate, and was indifferent to telling time of day. When top American jazz players played in Paris, they all sought out Django and their post-gig cutting sessions were legendary with Django usually the last player standing.
I read a biography of Django, and it contained many humorous & unusual situations while traveling with the group around France. Reason he was Illiterate was that he experienced a Gypsy life in his early years. The tragedy of losing some of his fingers was the result of attempting to put out a fire caused by candles in a Gypsy wagon that he was in! Funny stories - he was not used to staying in Hotels with so many floors & numerous room doors that all looked the same. Since he couldn’t read the numbers on the doors, he would take out his knife & carved into the wood of his room door in order to find it after the gig. He often invited some of his friend & Family from the local Gypsy camp to his hotel room to party & spend the night…which would disturb the Hotel manager, due to the small Monkey that came along on the shoulder of one the Gypsies!
Sometimes people call it Gypsy jazz, actually an homage to Django, one of the heros of jazz. This group, the Quintet of the Hot Club of France had another legend, the violinist Stephane Grapelli, heard here too. The similarity you're hearing with Cab Calloway is just really hard swinging. There is a young guy in France named Antoine Boyer who is bringing this back to life, but in his own way. You'll find him on UA-cam. He deserves more views. As for Django, even more amazing is that early in life he had sustained an injury to, I believe, his left hand which very much affected his playing and caused him to develop a completely unique style in order to get around the limitations. Of course listening to him you would never call it a limitation
Django was gypsy, so gypsy jazz makes sense... what he did was, as you said, adding some swing to the traditional eastern european gypsy music.
Gypsy jazz is played nowadays by many fantastic musicians and it's a healthy musical scene as long as I know. It's not only one guy
@@JulioLeonFandinho Yes, everything you say is correct. Also I didn't mean to suggest it was just one guy.
Every guitar player considers Django to be the Best that ever existed. DJANGO is our spiritual father...he was great......as a man and as a musician....just close your eyes and listen to the notes he plays. He speaks words with his fingers....
His only two fingers...
Never heard of this gentleman. First time hearing his music I like it not bad.✌️
What's amazing is his left ring and pinky fingers were burnt in 1928 and unusable, he could only fret using his thumb, index, and middle fingers. There's I think a couple videos showing him playing on UA-cam.
"Ridiculous stuff" indeed! The man is brilliant!
Stephane Grapelli on violin, and Django only had 3 fingers
Hari , He was very amazing . in 1928 he had a fire and badly burned two fingers he did not use them when he played less making a barre chord. He still was able to create such good music , Someone mentioned him to Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath and showed him to be an inspiration when he lost the tip of two fingers in an industrial accident before leaving to join Black Sabbath.
First heard Django 49 years ago and to this day I have not heard another guitarist get close to his level of improvising perfect musical statements every note means something it's like he,s telling a story
Jimmy Rosenberg came very very very close
Stochelo too
Check out Biréli Lagrène. A child protege, he was called Young Django, his first album was called Routes to Django.
@@micah1368I totally agree with you their are a lot of jawdroppin modern Gypsy players but there is something unexplainable about Django,s playing that I haven,t heard from any guitarist not just Gypsy jazz players
dang i actually learned so much from this wow
Django is the GOAT 👌
Django and his friends were well aware of the modernity of their music. He also composed "Rythme Futur", an even more avant-garde instrumental. I wouldn't be surprised Greg Jacobs (Shock G/Humpty Hump/piano Man), who studied music theory, knew about this title for naming one of Digital Underground's albums (Future Rhythm).
Even more impressive when you see a video of him playing. As has been stated several times below, his left hand was badly injured in a fire leaving him the use of just his index finger, middle finger and thumb. and yet he was able to play so much so clearly and was one of the originators of octave chord playing which Wes Montgomery later expanded upon.
I'm sure I've heard some of his music before, but I don't recall hearing this one... however, now I can see how this was obviously a massive influence on the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
The intro was definitely used in some hip hop, breakbeat or lounge track. Can’t put my mind to it which one though.
Harri, we don't invent new music we just rediscover the old.
You should Check out Andres Segovia's MALAQUENA. The Master of Spanish Guitar,
Great stuff Harri! These guys were from France, but very popular elsewhere. They were a five piece band, 3 guitars, stand-up bass and violin. They were considered a jazz group but they didn’t have horns or drums like most jazz bands. Django and his brother (one of the other guitarists) were gypsies, that may be where the Latin feel comes from. The violin solo in this piece always kills me. The violinist Stephane Grappelli continued playing well into his 80’s, I think. I saw him in concert in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, gray-haired but he still brought the house down.
True, but Django was Belgian.
@@movhisattva I didn’t know that, thanks!
@@movhisattva INDEED!!!
In the late 30s, just before the War, Duke Ellington and his orchestra were in Paris, and Rex Stewart & Barney Bigard - along with Benny Carter - sought out Django, and they found him. Benny, Rex, and Barney recorded some tracks with Django.
The band Django formed with Stephane was called The Quintet of the Hot Club of France (English spelling).
Now there are Hot Club bands in cities across the world:
Austin, TX (Hot Club of Cowtown), Hot Club of San Francisco, Hot Club of Naptown (Indianapolis), The Haute Club (Terre Haute, IN), Hot Club of Brooklyn, etc.
The violinist is Stephane Grapelli
He was making fantastic music his entire life
Well worth the listen
I adore some Django.
Listen to his "see you in my dreams" every chorus is a brilliant composition.
Yeah, it had the same effect on me back in 1967 when I first heard this on a French E.P. single. I was around 9 yrs old.. I had to research the Belgian Gypsy, not much was known about him in South London UK , where I grew up, although Django did stay in East London to escape the 2nd W.War..so he was known to play East London clubs/halls. Django was known to be illiterate, in early days he couldn't write his name and got others to sign autographs for him In the 1970s I met several old timers in London , who were in their 60s then age wise, who met Django. Some even jammed with him. Django suffered severe burns in a caravan fire so the whole left side of his body was handicapped, especially his left hand which had fused skin and tore open & bled when he played for long periods. The surgeons actually wanted to amputate his left hand .He could only use two fingers and a thumb on his left hand. Django was really admired by Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong( and he in turn loved them) and you should search out the tracks he did on electric guitar with Duke at Carnegie Hall. Check out "Honeysuckle Rose " Django and Duke, Carnegie Hall 1946 on ytube. The most incredible guitar solo ever! They did a long improvised Blues track also at the same concert. I meant to add, it's totally wonderful that you appreciate Django's music. Wes Montgomery/ Kenny Burrell rated Django as their main influence.
Yes and he did it with two fingers that will blow your mind
This is called Gypsy Jazz. This music lives on - please check out Joscho Stephan and his trio - they are fantastic.
Great reaction video , Hari! I also love your Beatles videos. I think you might want to react to Django’s version (easily available) of I’ll See You in my Dreams. One the most beautiful guitar solos ever recorded IMHO.
Django and Gypsy Swing, thats all you need👍and Joscho Stephan. Thank You. Greetings from Germany
Django was amazing & only had three fingers on his right hand & to play his extraordinary music 🎶 😻💜☮️🇨🇦
Thanks for this Harri it made my day
Left hand!
@@webbtrekker534 2 fingers
@@posglov ...and a thumb! 😃
He had all his fingers,2 were damaged when a candle set fire to paper flowers,the caravan was destroyed ,him burning his hand to escape
There's a video of Django live. He plays with only 2 fingers on the fretboard.
Django and the violonist Stephan Grapelli created what we call gypsy jazz, mix of swing jazz and gypsy music.
I liked this a lot. You might also like "Guitar Boogie" by Arthur Smith recorded in 1948. The producers of "Deliverance" tried to use "Dulling Banjos" without giving him credit . He sued them, and WON.
Willie Nelson was influenced by him. You can hear it in Willie's playing. A band called 8 and a half souvenirs played very similar stuff, available on youtube. Chrysta Bell on vocals singing French, Italian and German, Olivier Giraud on guitar and Glover Gill on piano. The first time I saw them was on Austin City Limits with Boz Scaggs. Fantastic stuff!
Listen to the old Bob Wills song "Who Walks In When I Walk Out?" There are echoes of Django Reinhardt there, too.
Children of the Revolution did a modernized remake about fifteen years ago. "Great stuff!!"
What an amazing song! This is the first time I've heard it and I loved it.
Harri, if you liked this song, you will love an even earlier song, one which revolutionized Jazz and is now in the Hall of Fame, recognized as one of the greatest songs ever, the 1928 classic, "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong. Some music historians have called this the perfect 3 minute song, plus a couple of seconds. Louis plays the trumpet, sings and scats. It's great.
Django and Stephan Grapellis
time together was one of those PEAKS OF CIVILIZATION.
Minor Swing was basically Grapelli’s composition. Every bit as pioneering and skilled as Django
Love, love Django and Le Hot Club. Found him in the mid-70s. I think that's his brother(the stern Muppet) on rhythm guitar and over his shoulder in the pic. Violinist Stephane Grapelli is equally and justifiably acclaimed, recognized and influential. Cheers, Harri, tyvm. ;>D
I may have said before, I read a description of Jimi Hendrix's 'Instrumental Solo' from the original Woodstock album, since renamed 'Villanova Junction' that said, "funking prettily like a 21st century Django Reinhart." Perfectly apt, also highly complimentary, perhaps to both masters.
Great reaction Harri! Django is one of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century. He lost the use of his ring-finger and pinky-finger on his left hand (the hand that holds the strings down on the fret board) in a fire in 1929 (if my memory serves me correctly). He could only use them to "bar" on bar chords and not individually for "picking". He adapted his playing to maximize his output.
🗣Great reaction/breakdown!
✌🤠💯
He and his brothers and Stephane Grappelli on violin had been doing it for years before 1937. It's Gypsy Jazz. And they were creating what you think had to have happened later.
Classical guitarist ' Julian Bream ' ( who, incidentally, was considered the best guitarist in the world through the 1970's and 1980's ) held Django Reinhardt up as ' his ' guitar hero !!!
Two working fingers on Django's left (fretting) hand. When I need to change my guitar style I sometimes play Django style - index and middle finger.
All this with 2 fingers! The one- six- two- five lives on!
It's much more amazing when you realize that he only had usage of two of the fingers on his fretting hand because of a terrible fire when he was young
Have your mind blown!
O yay!
I grew up with this.
If you come to San Francisco, The Hot club Of San Francisco will help you Out! Paul is on the web and is an excellent Django teacher!
He is one of the best Gypsie guitar player in the world it’s in are blood to play instruments
If you have a bit of time, I'd like to suggest a movie called Swing Kids. It is based on the pre WW2 years when German kids had to attend underground Swing clubs due to the music being outlawed. The Big Band & Swing music in the movie is just incredible & Django Reinhardt & his music play a part in story.
There's a recent release with Japanese kids (in Japanese with English subtitles) playing swing music. "Sing, Sing, Sing" was one tune that was first rate. It might be dubbed from Benny Goodman. If so those kids are accomplished lip sinkers.
You could've said 'ground-breaking' for jazz at that time. Django & Stephane laid the foundations for European jazz
Tony Iommi has credited Django Reinhardt with providing the influence and motivation to overcome his own accident. That accident more or less was what made Black Sabbath unique in their sound, and what lead to metal as we know it today.
I got introduced to Django Reinhardt through a quirky little movie called The Triplets of Belleville. It's a French animated film that features three sisters who were a singing act in the 1930's vaudeville era, and the opening sequence features caricatures of Django, Josephine Baker, and Fred Astaire. I knew who Baker and Astaire were, but not Django. Down the rabbit hole I went, and I was so happy I did!
Fantastic film 😊
Fantastic.
These days they call it gypsy jazz.
Oh yes. Woody Allen adores Django.. He is one of Woody"s idols. The violinist reminds me of Stephane Grappelli he is so good
I was introduced to Django over 40 years ago. Been loving it since. Glad to see you feature him.
I'm perplexed why you think it significant that this was from 1937. Virtuosity existed before today's players. Andre Segovia arguably the best of all time was born in 1893. I watched him play in the 70's on tv and had to switch him off before I smashed my guitar. :) The style Reinhardt played is Gypsy Jazz/swing. The guy on the violin is called Sefan Grapelli they were both in a French band called The Hot Club De Paris the rhythm guitar player was Django's brother I think.
Been listening to Reinhardt/Grappelli music for a long time. It's a great way to take a break from my usual favorite, hard driving rock and roll. This is a gateway to some very cool stuff, like The Hot Club of San Francisco, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks and more. Peace.
Gypsy jazz and he used to make it up as played. fantastic inprov.
This song need to be put out there
You have to listen the incredible guitar chorus on "I ll see you in my dreams"......
Django [I Awake ] ,Was the 1st with this European Jazz
Amazing
Inceredibly talented & mostly with only two fingers....😊 You should check out Joe Pass too.... another master of the instrument.
It's fine to pronounce it phonetically. Most people seem to use that pronounciation these days. He himself and his contemporaries used the french pronounciation which is Django REE-NART. The "latin" you hear in the style is gypsy/romani influence which is very much related.
A man who’s family were “travellers” he got caught in a fire in his mums caravan (so the story goes) and was badly burnt. His fingers were affected almost melted together and he learned his own style . Some of is fans who can play guitar actually tape - or glue their fingers to try and emulate his style. What a great artist depicted in many films musically but not enough of him playing on set or on film. A guy - both him and whom he played with I have loved since the sixties. He was very much admired in his day and now gladly people over the last 20 or so years are getting to find out about his talent.
All the best to you and yours.Rab
Still amazing almost a century later. Django and Grapelli were just amazing with their Hot Club band. To get where you are going you have to know where you started from.
Thank s for sharing this wonderful music .We must not forget these great players.
The great Alvin Lee credited Django Reinhardt as being a great influence on his playing.
It really is incredible isn't, it, I fall in love with this every time I listen to it. There's so much emotion and story behind this, you can even feel their anguish from the war and conflict in the music, maybe that's just me though. Great you appreciate this, it is indeed hard to comprehend this.
Every guitarest today in all styles of music play something that comes from django on the shoulders of giants comes to mind
The type of jazz would be called Hot Swing but contemporary followers of Django and this style call it Gypsy Jazz as Django was indeed a true Gypsy. Don't forget Charlie Christian playing with Benny Goodman. There were many guitarists doing jazz duets, solos or with violin with or without drums starting in the early 30's like Dick McDonough, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Lonnie Johnson, Tony Mottola and violinist Joe Venuti. Here's sum rapid fire shred by Charlie Christian ua-cam.com/video/Ce9Jtl9D6FQ/v-deo.html and sum more by Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang ua-cam.com/video/bhpAsrdSM1Y/v-deo.html
Django did it all with two fingers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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True and obvious timeless musical genius...Ty brother awesome stuff here
HBR- please also if you would have a listen to DJANGO REINHARDT playing these songs THE SHEIK OF ARABY - - WHEN DAY IS DONE - - CHARLESTON - - rhythm future - and more
Harri, I’d enjoy seeing your reaction to the video “Crazy Berlin: Lud Gluskin Orch. - Doin’ the New Low Down (1929).” The song was written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields in 1928. It was performed by Bojangles, Duke Ellington, and others, but the Lud Gluskin version is really a high-energy performance. I think you'd love it.
This is so cool. The more back in time the more pure the music. No auto correction or Wah peddles needed. Wonderful analysis Harri.
This id jazz manouche or Gypsy jazz. Django was a gypsy himself. He became famous in France in the 20s.
"His left hand had only two working fingers. The fourth finger (ring finger) and fifth finger (little) of Reinhardt's left hand were badly burned. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again. Reinhardt applied himself intensely to relearning his craft, however, making use of a new guitar bought for him by his brother, Joseph Reinhardt, who was also an accomplished guitarist. While he never regained the use of those two fingers, Reinhardt regained his musical mastery by focusing on his left index and middle fingers, using the two injured fingers only for chord work."
American think that jazz is purely from America. A lot of gypsy jazz had a lot of influence around the world and in the USA. Django was invited by Duke Ellington to tour with him. If you ask any serious guitarist he will undoubtedly know Django. Check out this very interesting video: ua-cam.com/video/g6KqE_KS6p8/v-deo.html
Stéphane Grappelli on violin was still around in the 1980 and 90s and used to appear on tv sporadically (In UK ) he died in 1997
Django was Willie Nelson's favorite guitarist.
Imagine traveling back in time and sitting in on one of those sessions... must have been a truly mind-blowing experience witnessing it performed live.
There's a few videos of him:
ua-cam.com/video/aZ308aOOX04/v-deo.html
@@Alex-dh2cx I know, but there's nothing like being there in person, experiencing the atmosphere.
He was a violinist 'til he injured his hand in a fire, so he switched to guitar playing. He's likely playing here with Stephane Grappelli on violin.
And don't forget the god on the fiddle - Stéphane Grappelli..
There's Stéphane Grappelli that's related ... oh i read they both founded the 'Hot Club de France' so it must be him on the fiddle. so it's not a club room, it's a club type of band.
imi hendrix plays Nuages (Django Reinhardt) at Woodstock as honour
He had 2 disabled unusable fingers on his fret - hand . He played with only the index and middle finger , where other normal guitarists had the 4 . That's Stephane Grapelli on violin.
“The guy on the violin” 😂
Black Sabbath guitarist Tommy Iommi lost the tips on a couple of his fingers and was inspired by Django Rheinardt.
Django and Stefan Grappelli are so good together.
His left hand is the one that goes up and down the guitar neck defining the notes. Only 2 fingers!!!